Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Caliphylla viridis
Gasterópodo, Gastropod
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Superfamily
Plakobranchoidea
Family
Hermaeidae
Genus
Caliphylla
Species
viridis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hermaea viridis Deshayes, 1857, Phyllobranchillus viridis (Deshayes, 1857), Polybranchia viridis (Deshayes, 1857) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Caliphylla viridis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20054. Accessed 1 November 2026.